Speaking of Novas

[njsteve]

Can't we all not get along. I kinda miss the crabby old days of 15 pages of arguments. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

Nice car!

[CDNL-78]

Nice looking ride Charlie.

[iluv69s]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: njsteve</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can't we all not get along. I kinda miss the crabby old days of 15 pages of arguments. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

Nice car! </div></div>

Only 15 pages?? I like the thread about the 1 of 1 alum head 70 Nova with the 074 heads better....

Cool car Charlie....Congrats !!! (Is there a muscle car You have not owned at one time or another?? haha)

[bergy]

It does look like a very nice car - good buy Charlie!

Steve - Ah, the good old days!

[Charley Lillard]

Actually someone started detailing..Subframe was pulled and restored. Engine had what were supposedly dealer installed aluminum heads. During detailing the heads were pulled and the iron ones re-installed, engine painted etc. It ended up in resto jail for a few years till the owner went and pulled it out unfinished. He then apparently sold it as is. Nothing is hooked up under the hood and stuff needs redoing under there. Way too nice of a car to restore though. I'm told it has orig. carpet with several snaps in the carpet to hold down what was supposed to be a extra piece of carpet that straddles the trans tunnel ?

[Schonyenko2]

Very cool Nova. It would be interesting to know the sequence of how the aluminum heads were switched out. Any way to find out if it was done before the original owner took delivery of the car? He may have an interesting story to tell.

[jasonL78]

I know I have read about it before and I most likely commented on it. I have a family friend that worked as a gm mechanic in the late 60's and said he installed multiple sets of aluminum heads on car's when they were new? He said it was very common. Just my 2 cents.

[mockingbird812]

Ahh Schonye - what are u doing? STIRRING THE POT?!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]










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[Schonyenko2]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ahh Schonye - what are u doing? STIRRING THE POT?!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

No. I, like Jason, have talked to people who had the heads changed when the car was new. Just trying to maybe establish a pattern. If we can find enough people who can confirm that they had the dealership change the heads over to aluminum before they actually took delivery, you can maybe lay to rest, the &quot;came from the factory&quot; availability issue.
If we find original owners who can say,&quot;we tried to order aluminum heads as an RPO but were told they were'nt available&quot;, then perhaps we can assume, that what we see as factory ordered, were in fact, dealer installed before delivery.
The question I would like answered is, if not RPO, why not.









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[1969l78]

One of 2 ???????????